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Watchers, worshippers, followers of the lamb

A man once asked a little boy what his father did. “He watches,” he said. “You mean he’s a night watchman?” the man inquired. “Oh, no,” the little boy exclaimed, “He just watches.” “Well, what does he watch?” the man said. “I don’t know if I can tell you everything,” the boy continued, “but I can name a few things.” “Well, tell me,” The now curious man replied. “He watches TV, he watches Mom do the housework, he watches for the paper boy, he watches the weather, and I think he watches girls, too,” he said with an impish grin on his ...

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‘There’s no cow on the ice’

Towering high above a small village in the French Alps stands a legendary mountain known as Mont Blanc. French for “white mountain” this famous mountain has proven to be a permanent challenge to mountain climbers with a peak reaching 15,777 ft. Nearby is an even more difficult and dangerous crag, known as the “Fool’s Needle.” Standing 11,487 ft. high—only the more experienced mountaineers even attempt to scale its slopes. Sometime back a young student was trapped for three days on the north face of Fool’s Needle. He was dangling from a narrow ledge when rescue workers ...

Twins a mixed blessing for some West African parents

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — In her dreams, Eveline Zagre believes her two sets of twins share premonitions and make demands of her — buy a chicken, beg for money. “Their spirits will enter your dreams and let you know what they want and then you have to get it for them,” she said. Despite the burden of following their dream directives, Zagre considers herself doubly blessed. The 30-year-old mother of five is raising 3-year-old twin girls and 13-year-old twin boys in Burkina Faso – one of the West African countries where twins are revered for having special powers, ...

Pope on COVID vaccines says health care a ‘moral obligation’

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives during the pandemic. Francis used some of his strongest words yet calling for people to get vaccinated in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, an annual event in which he sets out the Vatican’s foreign policy goals for the year. Francis, 85, has generally shied away from speaking about vaccination as a “moral ...

Worship when you find yourself in times of trouble

Jahaziel told the people in verses 15-17, that God was going to deliver them; “You will not need to fight in this battle.” In verse 17 it says, “Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.” The result was that Jehoshaphat and all Judah and Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshiping the Lord. They reacted to the message from Jahaziel according to their faith in God. God said He would deliver them, that settled it, they believed it. Even in times of trouble and distress, our goal should be to have such a heart and mind that we are ready to ...